Nevada's recent population boom means congested roads across the state. Traffic nearly tripled during the last 15 years, making management of the highway system a daunting task.
After enduring several years of revenue declines, construction firms finally saw an increase in work during 2011, reflected in the $10.4-billion project value among the 25 projects ranked on ENR Southwest's Top Starts list. It was more than triple the total of 2010's top 25 starts, when only $2.9 billion of new work was generated for contractors and design firms in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. Related Links: See the ranking of the Top 25 Starts of 2011 in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico The biggest single project start in 2011 was the $5-billion Intel Fab 42 Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility,
The $210 million, 500-ft-tall SkyVue observation wheel broke ground on the Las Vegas Strip, directly across from Mandalay Bay Resort. On Thursday, March 1, about 130 mixer-trucks delivered and placed 1,300 cu yards of concrete needed for the western hemisphere’s largest observation wheel. Las Vegas-based Nevada Ready Mix Inc. was the supplier. The attraction at 3951 Las Vegas Blvd. S. is being built by developers Howard Bulloch and David Gaffin. Vancouver-based Ledcor is the general contractor, with Norcross Construction, Las Vegas, as owner’s representative. The 18-in-dia tubular steel wheel has 16 spokes that connect to a custom spindle and hub
A major new residential project broke ground in downtown Phoenix. Located on a 3-acre site south of Roosevelt Street, between Third and Fourth streets, the $52-million project adds fuel to a current building boom of campus-related housing in the Southwest region. Developed by Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Concord Eastridge and Memphis, Tenn.-based EdR, the unnamed apartment complex will contain 326 units within two buildings, one seven and the other eight stories high. The ground floors will include a total of 7,500-sq-ft of retail space, to be subdivided among several tenants depending on demand.Crews with Phoenix-based general contractor Hardison/Downey Construction began working on site infrastructure
Phoenix-based contractor Kitchell completed construction of The Sonntag Academic Pavilion at Barrow Neurological Institute. Located at the St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, the facility is part of nearly $150 million worth of work performed by Kitchell at the hospital, including construction of the 438,000 sq-ft Barrow Patient Care Tower, renovation of a children’s rehab unit and modifications to house high-tech medical scanning equipment. Photo by Kevin Korczyk The pavilion is named for neurosurgeon Volker K.H Sonntag, MD, former director of Barrow's neurosurgery program. Designed by Phoenix-based Orcutt I Winslow architects, the 3,000-sq-ft Pavilion—named for a well-known neurosurgeon
Las Vegas Paving Corp., a 54-year-old, privately owned heavy-highway contractor based in Las Vegas, is regularly ranked among the top two general contractors on ENR Southwest’s annual Top Contractors ranking, and was the 2nd ranked transportation contractor in the three-state Southwest region in 2011. Las Vegas Paving’s largest project start of the past year was the $116.8-million Route 215 Bruce Woodbury Beltway, Tenaya Way to Decatur Blvd. project, which expands an existing interim roadway to four lanes and adds full interchanges and overpasses. Photo courtesy Las Vegas Paving Lou Esposito, Las Vegas Paving risk manager Photo courtesy Las Vegas Paving
New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory will shed 400 to 800 people through voluntary layoffs this spring, or about 10% of its permanent staff, to cut $300 million from its budget. It will leave the 69-year-old, 36-sq-mi. laboratory with 11,271 students, post-doctoral, term and union workers, which is the same staff number as four years ago. Photo courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Lab has a current annual budget of $2.2 billion. The site is managed by Los Alamos National Security LLC, comprised of Bechtel National, the University of California, Babcock & Wilcox Co., and URS for the
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney energized a crowd of construction industry executives by promising to undo much of the regulatory and labor initiatives of the Obama administration, during a speech Thursday in front of members of the Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. in Phoenix. Just hours later, ABC announced its endorsement of Romney's candidacy during its board of directors meeting. Photo courtesy ABC Romney won the endorsement of the Associated Builders and Contractors following his address to the group's board of directors on Thursday in Phoenix. Romney, who had sparred the night before with Republican primary opponents at the party’s
HealthSouth Corp., Birmingham, Al., has acquired land in Phoenix and plans to construct a new 48,000-sq-ft inpatient rehabilitation hospital. Located at the intersection of N. 91st and Pinchot avenues, construction is expected to begin at the site in the fourth quarter, with completion by the third quarter of 2013. Image courtesy HealthSouth The new 48,000-sq-ft rehabilitation hospital is expected to be completed by third quarter 2013. Image courtesy HealthSouth Similar to HealthSouth's Mesa hospital completed in 2009, the Phoenix facility will include specialized rehabilitation programs using advanced technology to help patients recover from major injuries and surgeries. Plans for the
Educare Arizona, an early-childhood preschool designed to give a leg up to at-risk children, opened on the campus of the Brunson Lee Elementary School in Phoenix. Photo by Tom Spitz Four buildings cluster around a large central courtyard play environment, serving 191 children from low-income families. Image courtesy Urban Earth Design The project's unique landscaping includes both edible gardens, shade trees, hummingbird and butterfly habitat and children's play fields. Located on 48th and Culver streets, just south of McDowell Road, the $9-million, science-based school serves approximately 191 mostly at-risk infants, toddlers and preschoolers from the low- to moderate-income community served
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